sostark wrote: Also, already having a LAL Oscillo 88, would this pedal be […] a welcome addition?
Asking this of ILF is asking Bob Ross if “burnt ochre” is a wise choice for your painting of a sunset.
I own both, and there’s definitely some overlap in the Venn diagram, but enough singular character to warrant having both.
I don’t use the expression jack on either, since I sit in front of my board and tweak as I play, so sorry I can’t help with that.
But...
When oscillating, the Dream Reaper doesn’t have quite the... nuance... that the 88 has. The 88 just responds so much more to the slightest change in capacitance like volume or tone knob changes or pickup selection.
However, the Dream Reaper is much more versatile when it come to “standard” shades of dirt. I’d say it sounds like a very lively Rat, but then you add the filter and the bias and all the othe fun stuff.
Oh! And speaking of the filter... I really dig the Dream Reaper’s oscillation tone over the 88 if I’m using either pedal as the “sound source”. Where the 88 is just pure oscillation (which can have its uses too), the Reaper’s filter is really useful for dialing in the perfect tone before sending it downstream to the rest of your effect chain.
TL;DR
Get a Dream Reaper.
Play it against your 88.
Flip the one you dig the least
...or not
Keep both for maximum ILFness